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This is Mr. Beast, the fraudster and child exploiting psychopathic piece of shit, right?
Remember rich ppl do charity to duck paying taxes!Government social services have a much wider reach than any millionaire or billionaire and the tax money they should be receiving from the upper class could benefit millions of ppl instead of the few lucky enough to receive their “charity”
Looks to be an hour long video. What’s the summary for people who prefer to read?
It’s a very good video. A former employee (confirmed btw) breaks everything down about Jimmy piece by piece from how his videos are faked and winners are rigged to how Jimmy holds literal illegal lotteries exploiting children. He was recently sent a cease and desist by the beast team under the claim he was leaking “company secrets”, which is a bad look, and one of their employees directly responded to him to “debunk” the video but instead mostly attacks his character and completely ignores the whole targeting children with illegal lotteries part. It’s pretty damning, and he is releasing a part 2 video soon.
Thanks for the info.
illegal lotteries exploiting children
Can you please elaborate on this bit? Do you mean that it’s illegal because any lottery has to be state-run or some other aspect? And how are children exploited? Is it because they’re the contestants in the videos or something else?
MrBeast uses a lot of illegal gambling techniques to hook children. The chocolate bar is advertised as healthy but the recipe was changed after launch, making it even unhealthier than Hershey. A lot of episodes and winners are scripted and somehow favor friends and families of staff. Even the signature on shirts are fake, as someone not Jimmy was seen on stream signing as MB.
I don’t know why but there recently is a lot of Mr beast content in Lemmy posts, and I could do without that as I have zero interest in the person.
OK, neither do I, but I post these things for posterity.
IMO, he’s very overrated.
My bad. I suggest you post that separately perhaps on the same community so that everyone gets the info.
EDIT: I put the link on the main post
Wait, the Verge said the multimillionaire that paid two Indian guys $5 to hold an English sign they didn’t understand that said “death to all Jews” is a nazi? The guy that also paid someone else to dress up as Jesus christ and hold up a sign that said "Hitler did absolutely nothing wrong?" The same guy who likes to shout the N-word during his “gamer moments?”
How unfair of them.
There are plenty of better reasons to hate The Verge; reposting Press Releases as “news”, jumping on trends of public opinion, 12 minute video summaries of 30 minute events, staff who think Debian is some sort of anti allergy medication (this has gotten better, but there is still a little too much Tim Cook semen spitting at times.), “reporters” who have the job of reposting anything from Techmeme and techurls, the stench of Vox elitism, staff posting quote tweets as news and staff posting their purchase recommendation emails from Amazon (with affiliate links added) as “deals”.
All that being said, it’s still leagues ahead of Gizmodo and I do think it’s worth reading.
Surely the world’s most punchable face ?
Not news
